In William Gibson's 'idoru' he talked about a stratification of markets where computers are tiered with similar insides but the cheapest being plastic, the 2nd level being metal, and the most expensive product being organic material. To wit, the protagonist wields a notebook comptuer made by native americans out of recycled cans from beaches and shells for keys.

There was an interesting article on Frog Design's website a while back that spelled this out concisely.

I bought a jawbone. used it with my nokia e61. nobody liked the quality and I couldn't hear people well.

switched to theboom. Wow. People say its the best they've ever heard me on the phone. This is even when i'm riding on an NYC train or NYC bus.

check out my comment, which you might find interesting

I agree as an e61 user. Also check out my comment on the end.

best regards,

Ian

The problem with this phone is that it is hosted by AT&T..., er, uh, Cingular.

Cingular is going to shift its branding to AT&T. AT&T has public ties to Bechtel (see AT&T website) and the National Security Administration (NSA) (see NYT). In fact, it appears AT&T allows the NSA unfettered access to ALL information.

And all that, on top of anywhere, any place access that AT&T is pushing -- is it that they're selling you anywhere, anyplace access to your media -- or are they selling anywhere, anyplace access to YOU?

I'm seriously surprised Steve Jobs would put Apple users in bed with the NSA like that. I'm also seriously surprised that no one is making a bigger stink about Cingular/AT&T's involvement in this deal. Apple users, intelligent and free, should threaten boycott until another carrier is solicited.

Apple admits vulnerability. If you check out the latest Apple Developer Conference, viewable through iTunes, you'll see one of their programming guys admit as much.

At issue is Unix -- at least according to the guys over at Mac Geek Gab -- they say there are so many levels to ask permision at, it's impossible to unknowingly allow a bot/virus onboard.

... and also, tell me that alcohol was not involved. You cannot tell me that alcohol was not involved. The classic formula for Robotic Danger index number

RD=E/LC+BAC(d.t.)(o.t.)

Robotic Danger =Employees/Lawn Chairs + Blood Alcohol Content (hours of downtime)(overtime rate of pay)

In this case the Robotic Danger index number is:

First the robots lull us into a false sense of security. On the chosen day, they strike.

can you guys pull that image from total recall where schwartzenegger passes through security and all his guns show up on his skeleton?

what's astonishing to me is how the shark arcs its body perfectly in midair to avoid the shark-equivalent of a belly flop, so it enters the water at one small curved point to avoid the slap of the whole body on the surface.

It's also interesting to see the seal's tail to go from moving to dead by the time the shark hits the water... must have just bit it right through... wow...